retractation

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• Keatts, Lewis and Sara Libby had to scrap their first podcast recording Thursday when NBC 7 retracted its story.

• In a statement Friday, Bry disavowed any responsibility for spreading misinformation by promoting the story while it was disputed but not yet retracted.

• Once the plastic sticks, one for each sample, are retracted and sealed in a bag marked “biohazard,” the residents are hustled out of the facility.

• Sri Lankan police retracted the mistake, but not before Majeed received death threats.

• In fairness to the candidates, though, the paper has not written or announced that it withdrew its support or retracted its view that, for example, Elliott should not be fired.

• Although Mefferd later apologized for the method of her accusations, she did not retract the substance of the claims.

• I cannot and I will not retract anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience.

• But when reporters asked him why he felt the need to retract the comment, he said, “So you all could stop asking me about it, OK?”

• His manager, agent, and close friends begged him to retract his statement.

• Editor Mark Whitaker stood by the article, but had to retract the detail about the Quran.

• I do not retract my word, Malcolm; but I am bound, by an early promise to my father, never to enter the doors of a gaming-house.

• Then something that he had heard came back to him, and brought a sudden frown to his face, but it was too late to retract.

• Some time afterward, turning an expressive look, he said again, "I retract that expression."

• This tragedy is bad, and I do not retract a single word of what I have said about it; but the actress is admirable.